I'm Going To Miss The Arctic

The Great Climate Change Hoax, which was invented by crafty scientists in order to get wealthy on grant money at the expense of the embattled poor sisters of America's oil companies, is on its way to providing us with a new summertime getaway for water fun for the whole family. It used to be called the Arctic.

At present," the scientists wrote in a paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, "it is not possible to completely choose one approach over another." More from the paper: The large observed shifts in the current Arctic environment represent major indicators of regional and global climate change. Whether a nearly sea ice-free Arctic occurs in the first or second half of the 21st century is of great economic, social, and wildlife management interest. There is a gap, however, in understanding how to reconcile what is currently happening with sea ice in the Arctic and climate model projections of Arctic sea ice loss.

Worryingly, amphibians disappeared faster from many of the areas designed to preserve them: national parks. In Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, for example, of five documented species of amphibians, one is locally extinct and the other, the boreal toad, has declined dramatically in the last 10 years. And populations of California's threatened Sierra Nevada yellow-legged and Southern yellow-legged frogs declined 95 to 98 percent in the years leading up to 2008-even in Yosemite National Park. That frogs and toads are dying even in the best-protected areas suggests the cause of death is not local, but global, Adams said in an interview. Researchers didn't point to any one cause of the decline, but suggested a number of theories from climate change to habitat degradation to disease.

Some day, the folks living on the Martian Colonies are not going to believe what we did here.